Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.