What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

For all we know, we know nothing.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.