Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

There are a lot of things that people are doing unconsciously wrong.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.