Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Who can tell when troubles may come?

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

My dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

Honestly, Battlestar is a truly unique thing, and its hard for anything to step up to that. There arent often shows that are as good as that.