Voice is really about letting your characters loose.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

How can I ever repay you for what you've given me? A daily opportunity to change the world for the better simply by spending time with the person I love the most.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Frienship is eros...without wings

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.