. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

What good's a captive without her captor?

The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.