I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.