Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.

Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?""No""No?""No.

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.