Everyone said they were witches. I desperately wanted to believe it.

I ate and read my book, this particular kind of fantasy novel that I secretly loved. It was my favorite thing to do– eat and read. The world just shut up for a while.

I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.

By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.