I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

How can you not love Jack Gleeson? Hes amazing. Hes the nicest guy.