I don't want to hurt people.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

I always thought I was so fit.

It was never too late to undo who you had become.