We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You narrow hope when you define it.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you are looking at a flow of energy through the sky that is causing a gas to glow.

luck is distributed at six in the morning

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

everybody has a story to tell

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.