The Power of Words

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”

“A simple child/ That lightly draws its breath/ And feels its life in every limb/ What should it know of death?”

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time."

“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”

“God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.”

“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” 

“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”

“Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?”

“In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological – resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”