Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

Victory does not come to cowardsit comes to the brave ones.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.