The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

There is no other shame like senseless sin.

Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.