The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Lord keep us from all evil so that our lives will be free of pain.

Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream!

There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.