Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

There are so many cities in every single city.

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.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.