I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.

Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.