I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

Fire is not essential. Fire is warm comfort. From fire, cultures are born.

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

Go to bed," he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.