Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

I do not think, Prospero, ' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.

Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.

Whatever you think you are, that's what you are

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.