I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

All products come from the worth of time

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"