Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.

Proverb

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Cassandra Clare

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

Edward Carpenter

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Orwell

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Jimmy Carter

Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.

Rachel Boston

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Alberto Giacometti

It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

Terry Pratchett