If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!

If you don't understand, I'll stay with you until you do.

In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.

I write as a sow piddles.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

I was always responsible for everything in my campaign.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.