It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

I love to travel, it doesn't matter where I am in the world, usually there's a good time to be had.

It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.

The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.

Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.