The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Because fear kills everything, " Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

All writers are insane!

Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.

Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.

A conscious lifetime... is a treasure beyond value.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

It is brave to be involved

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.