To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.