He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

Her passions were narrow but deep.

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

Learn to ne happy with what you have.

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

Rely on yourself, and be true to who you are. What's unique about you is what will take you far. Don't look to others to say you're okay. You know it--so believe it!-- show your own self the way.