Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

I force people to have coffee with me just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

When two people first meet they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other when you get close to them you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

But it all comes down to friendship treating people right.

Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

People come in and out of our lives and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book' but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me because in my view fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

When I was in jail I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Most importantly nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality of dignity of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that despite human failings the Simpsons are really decent people.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner you don't have to open.

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president George Bush is a criminal.

The three main sources of scepticism are first that not every people desires freedom second that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.