When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

Pray with expectation to get an answer.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.