Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

I am an Ultimate, ” she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. “And I have thepower to do the impossible.

After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324

Fading from consciousness is the fact that we all needed help in the beginning

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

What makes me cry? Anything bad related to my kids. The world.