But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Powerful people have no regrets.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

Language usage always has a political context.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.