You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask, ' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness...I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

Ain’t I your man?” he persisted.“Yeah, Ellis, you’re my man.” Her lips quaked as she said it.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

Talent is being able to please people.

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!