The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes, " Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

Our lives are interesting.

A person cannot be a Marine without honor.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.