The gift blesses the giver.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

By the hairy balls of Jesus

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart