When the going gets tough, choose your cliché.
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.No one's immune to bribery.
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
Some books you read.
Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates?
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
Garden work clears the mind.
There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly,...
Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or...
I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.
Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.
There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by al...
Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.