The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all

I keep my body in the best shape.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.