Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.

Just so you know a weapon, a body armour can never be a fashion accessory.

Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.