I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?

If thee marries for money thee surely will earn it.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.