Nothing is ever behind us.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

It is hard to die unmourned.

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

I think one of the sexiest things a couple can share is laughing.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.