That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make, ” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant, ” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.

Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.