I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.

- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.

If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making me what I am.

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.