I did not have all the answers. I did not know if I’d deserved God’s grace or wrath, or what would become of me if I ever fled this town.But I did know how to shoot a gun. - Skylla Warden

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

Never, never try to scope the market.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.