Another day : San Francisco and wooden houses painted the color of children's thoughts.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!-- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the i…

You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the caus…

London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ev…

In my mind, he was guilty of no error he - was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see a…