They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you'd even die for them, is a great subject.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

You and I were never meant to be together, but we are. Our pairing is not unlike two electrons ignoring natural laws in order to orbit one another. Life now defies reason—quirky but beautiful.

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.