It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.