If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, " Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."Wizards don't giggle, " I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.

You're such a cynic, " Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

Harry, " she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, " I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.

notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.

If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.