I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

If we have made a specific transition, what it means is that anything is possible right now.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.