He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

After eight years of Obama one thing is clear: Conservatives want a fighter.