Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Every bullet has its billet.