Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

I’m saying there is evil in the world, ” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity, ” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

After you play a part, you think of it as your own.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.