Routine kills creative thought.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.

The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.