Your love taught me to grieveand I have been needing, for centuriesa woman to make me grievefor a woman, to cry upon her armslike a sparrowfor a woman to gather my pieceslike shards of broken crystal

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

It was the ship of dreams to everyone else.

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.