Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.

For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

There's luck in odd numbers.

We like to believe our fashion is growing.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.