The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

To love is to communicate, and you can communicate only in truth. Speak the truth, and speak it with love.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.