I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

when you love somebody you justify negative sides of this person but if you are disappointed in your love u lose every chance to do it

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.

The moment the word 'why' crosses your lips, you are doing theology.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.