This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.