The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.