...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Nobility, I always have one thing common with you, I always think you’re an angel

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

But I trusted in thee O Lord I said Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.