Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn’t he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

Effie Seabright, we’ve been fated to meet you for a long time.

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

There's something about a cowboy...

I always thank God for the gift of a new day, because despite the fact that I strategically prepare for the future, it is still only God that can make it possible for me to witness tomorrow.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.