Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.

I don't need proof, I have faith.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Your first love is like your first language. No matter how many other languages you speak, you can never be as good as in your first.

We don’t just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.