No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the 'truth'. Those who are with the 'truth' are a minority, whom you may call Utopians.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?