I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

You really shouldn't say I love you unless you mean it. But if you mean it you should say it a lot. People forget.

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'