Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Good, ” she said, “because if you fall off a skyscraper, I’ll be so mad at you.

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!

After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 a

Are you . . . lost?” “Not really, ” she told him. “We just don’t know where we’re going.

What are you doing?” I asked Loretta. “Stabbing a cushion, ” she told me.

Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.

We’re alive!” Swedish told her. “I did not see that coming.

Did Cap’n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny.” “Yeah, ” I said, “that’s exactly how I’d describe him.

Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No.

Now you’re listening to Swedish ?” I asked her. “He thinks I’m the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!

If Chess is the switch, ” Loretta said, “how does he turn the Fog off?” Bea bit her lower lip. “I don’t know—ask Chess.” “How would I know?” I said. “You try being a switch.

The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Sometimes the most important word is no. It takes the pressure off.

The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.