I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

You are my first and last light, of my day and my night.

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.