I'm not married, ” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

We each survive in our own way.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.

Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

I like music, ' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.

Hush! Take no notice!" - Gandalf

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.