You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure.

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the Cabaret.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&ampB pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.