History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)

Make the world better.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.