As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.

How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,

When a person is devastated, it coneys that the individual is regretting for his or her mistakes.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.