Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

The possibility of the dream is our joy.

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

I can be a part of everything. Every movement.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.