I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

I stand astonished at my own moderation

Success is beautiful and dangerous.

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.