God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest along with everything else.

I can almost feel the wind beneath my wings

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.