Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

Follow your dreams, your passions - your obsessions. Persistence will always turn failure into success.

It’s voyeuristic the way you searchfor answers in these cries for help, and how you see Death’s fingersbut always think they’re paintbrushes.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

I have good laugh every day. I enjoy life. I'm surrounded by love and positivity.

I'm sorry no one saved you.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.