Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.