Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

The responsible treatment of this particular Ring of Power is not necessarily to toss it into the Cracks of Doom. But we have to come up with something rather quickly, or what we'll get is the Land of Mordor.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

The bell that measures time is ringing

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.