Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Reasons are for peasants.

All true stories end in death.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Turn off your brain and turn on your heart

It's quite nice to have something where you can be a bit naughty if you have a twinkle in your eye and you can get away with things a bit more and that's what 'The Choice' is about.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.