There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.

I can't help it. You bring it out in me, " he accused. "No, " I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.