After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

Everything to do with time is hideous.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand, ' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Prosperity without God is like committing suicide.

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.