I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

... humility + humor = humanity.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.