The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.Flavia de Luce

Books make the soul float.

I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

library is a beautiful old thing

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.