Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

Nature was taking back what had once been hers.

God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

We are one another’s angels.

The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.