The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

Little strokes fell great oaks.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.