The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.
I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.
I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.
Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.
If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
English people. . . are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.
I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.