It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.