My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.

Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.

A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.