I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Every new day gives me ceaseless hope to reach out for my dreams

For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker

Her eyes Her bodyHer heart Makes me believe In magic In destiny In myself

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.