Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Whether it’s chocolate or socks, the rule is the same; the darker the better.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Very little in this world makes sense.

Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

We have a job to do. After the fight, I'll love him.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.