music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever