I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

He thinks things through too much.

Strange world isn't it?

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

The whole purpose of education is to transfer and transform knowledge for the future generations so that they can transcend their lives and humanity as a whole.

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place.

I think that glamour is about confidence and really owning the look.

If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.

We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.