The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

My Personality and Attitude is Much Attractive Than your Outer Look !

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.