A disastrous flaw in our design is that the heart always defies the brain.

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.

I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.

Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game