The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Don't squash creativity, inspire it!

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.

I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.