Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

Maybe it’s the quiet, ” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs, ' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.