I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.