Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.

It’s our memories that teach us who we are.

Never leave home without your memories.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.

At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.