She wondered how to mourn the death of a son who wasn't dead. And yet the loss of separation made that easy. The idea of pain made pain, where she knew none could possibly truly exist.

How does something so invisible make one so invincible?

The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.

We do what we like, and we like what we do.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

I wouldn't even think about bribing a rottweiler with a steak that didn't weigh more than I do.

Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.