It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

What the war did to dreamers.

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

What the war did to the dreamers.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the young and old.

I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.

Health is never going to go out of fashion.

There's no place like New York. And I found out that until you go through it for a season, you really don't know it.

If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

When I want to treat myself, I will almost always get myself a new handbag.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.