Don't you see Blaynie." Mitch put his arm around her shoulders. "You're like an illegitimate little sister that I never wanted.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.

It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.