How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

Blanchefleur felt a quick rush of affection for her. When the world frowned, Branwen went on smiling. There was a heart of steel under all that froth and bubble.

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.