Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

In fact, the males very rarely take permanent mates.' His skin was so tan. 'Why not?' 'Because we tend to kill the females.' Ah, well, okay. That wasn't cool.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

I'm not going to change. I'm not going to start clubbing or going out in limos. I'm laid-back, and I'm going to stay that way.

If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.