It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Free will is absolute when the choice is right

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

We may have pain, but not as great as His name.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

Everyone is doing forensics.

From a single crime know the nation.

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.