I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost land

The most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour.

There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight?" Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.