Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

To each his own magic.

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

How did that go” [Butler] asked. “Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age.”“Fabulous, ” said Artemis, his voice dripping with sarcasm. “We’re planning a June wedding.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.