Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

It's simple: What you put in, is what you get out.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.