Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

There is no one right way to live.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?

The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires.

I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

I was a modern young woman, fearless and capable (with mace spray in my robe’s right pocket), and I didn’t care who knew it. Attitude was everything when dealing with dwarfs.

We are at a point now where people respect us and respect our work - the guys want to sit down and watch women's matches.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

Your city is under attack," he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?" Magnus to Alec

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.