Better an honest devil than a lying angel...

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

I see parents who bring their kids down because their parents did that to them, instead of reinforcing their gifts, and instilling a sense of what they came to this earth to do.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.