It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

Love she had found, had a strange way of multiplying. Doubling, trebling itself, so that, as each child arrived, there was always more than enough to go around.

She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Music is a reflection of who you are.

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.