So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

The course of true love rarely runs smooth.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.