Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

We are mere bundles of habits.