The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Thank you for existing.

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.