Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

...as young and as ancient as Spring....

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

The future belongs to socialism

Mr. Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she'd set the family ghoul on them.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.