All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness...I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask, ' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.

It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.

There is nobody more pro-Israel than I am.

Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.