Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it

It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.

They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.