Strive to become the best version of your original self. That's where your true fulfillment in life lies.

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

It’s a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'She looked up from her book.'I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima