By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

things keep falling in and out of place.this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

Faith with work yields fulfillment

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

Crooks are early adopters.

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.