Magnus Flyte

“The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Prayer. That was what people did when there was nothing else left to do.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Isn’t it funny that only twenty years ago, they were down there cowering in terror that we trigger-happy, decadent, capitalist Americans would…

— Magnus Flyte

“You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip.”

— Magnus Flyte

“This place was just a pile of old stones. Pretty stones arranged in intriguing ways, but just old stones. “And outdated wiring,”…

— Magnus Flyte

“Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to…

— Magnus Flyte

“Love makes people so stupid.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Prague is a threshold.” “A threshold?” “Yes. Between the life of good and … the other.” Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire…

— Magnus Flyte

“She hadn’t really counted on having to measure pedagogic dick length with a whole tribe.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to…

— Magnus Flyte

“Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty," Sarah commented.”

— Magnus Flyte

“At Harvard, you could tell if a girl would sleep with you by her poster. Modigliani--si. Klimt--no.”

— Magnus Flyte

“It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for. Or die for.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Sarah felt about great sex the way St. George felt about slaying dragons...”

— Magnus Flyte

“... reminding her that life was short, and that soon she, too, would be one of the wraiths floating around the castle.…

— Magnus Flyte

“...how strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Drug companies do not want us to dream this dream. But many people who are ill reject it as well. The responsibility…

— Magnus Flyte

“Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse,…

— Magnus Flyte

“Geniesse das Leben ständig! Du bist länger tot als lebendig!' {Constantly enjoy life! You're longer dead than alive!}”

— Magnus Flyte

“The cold war was over, but all the little games persisted. It was a good thing those puppets in the Middle East…

— Magnus Flyte

“Ludwig’s enormous, awe-inspiring genius, his productivity, his prescient modernism were all contained in music. Beside that, the letters to the Immortal Beloved…

— Magnus Flyte

“History should be studied but not worshipped.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Sometimes it was just better to blow shit up.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Served her right, really, having sex in a supply closet of the Boston Hyatt. But George had smelled like oranges and leather…

— Magnus Flyte