You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Because fear kills everything, " Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

All writers are insane!

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what tastes better, their innocence or their gooey rib butter.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!