Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.

What do you think of allthis, darlin’? Will you be my soul mate?

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me I can't remember why I got married.

If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.