A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Orson Scott Card

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.

George W. Truett

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

Jean Baudrillard

Boldness be my friend.

William Shakespeare

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Bette Davis

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant

...and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book and resume our lives.A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

Neil Gaiman

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Amy Winehouse

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

George Allen