The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.

He told me just to keep the ball low.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.