Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.

The leadership of engagement begins by reconnecting to the physicality and the people of a company, not simply its spreadsheet. It all begins in the workplace.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.