What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

I wonder why we hate the past so.