But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

We are governed not by armies but by ideas.

Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.

Only the past is real.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled