If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

My energies have been drained.Masturbating too much will do that.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.