If the demons lived anywhere it was here.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

You are never late in the pursuit of the dreams. Once you recognised your dreams and visions. You must reach out passionately to fulfill them.

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

Possibility is what drives us.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.