We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Even then I found the word fitting, soothing.Fireflies.Fire flies.Fire, fly.

I love you’ is validated with action.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

I'm sure that Plotinus wasn't that impressed by the Christians.

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.