All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

I get enough fashion news in my professional life. I like interiors during my downtime.

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.