And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

She’d felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes.

Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child learn from incense How best to pray.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

Success has ruin'd many a man.

With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.