It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.