Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

Your Eyes Travel a Thousand Miles, But your mind will travel even more

This is not just "our" world.

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.