My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy

She lifted her chin and glared at him. “If you had but asked, I would’ve informed you that I do not attend masquerades.” “That is precisely why I didn’t ask.

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

It is not just do do do. It is not just be be be. It is do be do be do.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

I too am a government.

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.