The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

Be my shield, baby. Be my world

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.