I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.

How's Alison getting on?'Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

I make no claims. I have set down the facts

Don't retire, rewire and refire

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.