Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

Carolina beach music, " Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

Those who can truly see, know.

You think us fairies don’t understand sarcasm? We invented sarcasm.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

True love is when you're cheating on a person but the thought of them still makes your eyes smile!

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.