Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Everything happens for a reason.

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

The way to the stars is open.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.