...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order.

Property is a nuisance.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.