One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.