"My family isn’t posh; they’re musicians."

"Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my abili…"

"“But don’t you think,” I persist, “that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, tha…"

"Clare takes a mouthful, swallows it in a businesslike fashion, and says, “Well, that’s not so bad.” “That’s a twenty-…"

"But as usual there’s no answer to this. As usual, that’s just how it is."

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"