How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

Dreams of success often get in the way of actual success.

Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.

The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.

His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

Stay with me.Always.

Life is short and you gotta enjoy it to the fullest while it lasts.

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.