Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion.

You may think just a windowBut you overtook my soul.You are not just a whisper, You are louder than my soul. (from poem Chimera)

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.