Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Honor does not have to be defended.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live, ' and that is so cool.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.