You narrow hope when you define it.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

I prefer working behind the camera.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.