The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.

Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.