Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.