The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

She didn't know if it was God. She wasn't really sure what to call it. She just knew she believe in unconditional love. And that was really all that mattered.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.