The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality’s song

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.