Every accepted public quote

“A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the num...”

“Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.”

“Goats are really cute, especially little ones. But they do smell a little bit.”

“Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.”

“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agricultur...”

“They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a 'w,' the second an 'e.'...”

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

“I think it's huge that I'm wearing my natural hair texture on ABC in prime time. As Dr. Rainbow Johnson on 'Black-ish,' I think my hair is part of the reality of this woman's life. She has f...”

“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However,...”

“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”

“Lovers only become soulmates when they evolve into one soul.”

“I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understat...”

“Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumpi...”

“When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.”

“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come...”

“When you look at the 'Roseannes' and the 'Will and Graces' - when those reboots or sequels or whatever you want to call them are well-executed and have a fresh angle that's relevant, it's a...”

“Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.”

“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.”

“The Rainy Day The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day...”

“I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.”

“Do you find this...distracting?”

“Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.”

“I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in t...”

“You're only young once, but you can always be immature.”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“Love is an engraved invitation to grief.”

“The greatest revenge you can obtain is to never reveal the harm and pain you feel to the one who injured you.”

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be bra...”

“Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.”

“I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer.”

“Those having no conscious of guilt after the imposition of cruelty and brutality, have no claim to the biblical gospels as set forth in Christianity; for they ordain the necessity, to cloth,...”

“The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”

“A skeptic can be evaluated through their approach when they doubt an issue; at one end of the spectrum resides the person who always seeks the truth and enjoys investigative research; at the...”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“Even when it's not pretty or perfect. Even when it's more real that you want it to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”

“Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.”

“He is now rising from affluence to poverty.”

“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”

“Devotion purchased, will disappear with the highest bidder.”

“We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and t...”

“He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.”

“The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.”

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”

“A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.”

“Profound silence is the best alternative than nonsensical speech.”

“All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then,...”