We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension, ” said Sabetha. “The rest of us certainly have.

What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean."He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat", said Locke, "but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral.

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid, ” said Locke. “Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.