If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

He’s more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.

The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.

The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.

God Provides by divine Power through knowledge of His Promises so that we Participate in divine nature in godliness.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.