Fate. Sounds romantic.”“You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.

Fate was a train that didn't stop until it reached its final destination.

Being happy is the best revenge.

A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Make them laugh, and then make them listen.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.