You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Only by guarding yourself with righteousness will you feel peace and confidence at the height of success

I feel thankful for the grace of life.

It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

If on your journey you should encounter GOD, GOD will be cut

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.