You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

Maybe Adalwulf truly has nothing tae fear for I see before me only cowards willing tae sacrifice everything for the sake of their lives! - Aiden

I can't believe I'm here, sitting with all my friends.There's No-one!And there's Nobody!My only two, and best true friends.

Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket

The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.

The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.