In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Ideas are never original, " Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style, " Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

For while it is of no particular importance how many things you start in life, it is of great importance how many you finish!

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Governor Romney has been successful. I think, that's what we want in a President of the United States.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Cassandra,” he said, “I hope you know that poaching Muppets is illegal in this country.