I don't believe in happy endings.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.