What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Could you really love two different people at once? Could you split your heart in half?

If you are going to be a prophet why not say things that bring love into your life! Think about Philippians 4:8.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.