How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God.

Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.

Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.

Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future.” -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.