He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

There really is no such thing as race.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

Respect authority while questioning it.

It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.