Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

I like boring things.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.