Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

I wanted to hurt in a way I understood.

Knowledge does not come through force. it can not be taken, it can only be freely received.

The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises.

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

I'll get mobbed by literally 40 school girls. It's like being a full fledged star, and that's surreal.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.