"If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home."

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”

“Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.”

“My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.”

“As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?”

“We have our own brains.”

Source : "Musharraf to West: 'We have our own brains'" by Becky Anderson, Barry Neild and Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2008.

“The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade”

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

“I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.”