Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

When I was little, I always sad that I wanted a brother, and now it's like having four of them!

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.