She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.

A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.