The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

I am so glad that God miraculously save my life at near-death.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.