Between the desireAnd the spasm, Between the potencyAnd the existence, Between the essenceAnd the descent, Falls the Shadow.

You guys dated, didn’t you?”“Are you insane? Not even if the continuation of our kind depended on it would I be tempted to do something so awful.

It always came down to his freaking pride.

You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.