Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.