She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

You know, " he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

I love my fans more than life itself

Simply, there are many things I would like to do.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.