Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

I got a really thick strong accent. I'm a nerd, nah not really, I'm goofy. You have to know me. You'll see it, people who know me see it.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

Yeah, it’s me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. ‘Cause right now, I’m pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.