Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

Carving the world outside of you requires magical insights and deep out-worldly thinking.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.