There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'

Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!

Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.