Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.

Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them - especially when they're wrong.

Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.