That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.