There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

We're not thirteen and this isn't a locker room." "Fine, fine. Just remember, I had to watch Dr. Phil with Mom for two months after I had knee surgery. I'm practically a psychiatrist.

Anyone can produce a new fact

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.

His (Minho) voice is so low that I think the sound comes from the soles of his feet.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.