Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.