There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

Anyone who takes on my sister, " he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Be a Samurai.Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

Life is you master, or death is.

...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.

Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry of my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.

You may regard yourself as a accident from the cosmos, but I prefer to think of you as a miracle.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Since I'm the judge, it's a very stupid thing to irritate me!

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.