It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

Sometimes things that are crippling to hear may be true or they wouldn't be so crippling.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.