Gifts make friends and friends make gifts.

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said.

The world is a dangerous place to live

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I was not a trained actor.

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.