I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday

Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

The strong times, the weak times-- they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.