Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.