I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.

The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced.

Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

I regret my disbelief in God.