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The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.
To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.
It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.
You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.
Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.
We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.
Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.
A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.
It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.
For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.
From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.
Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.