Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.