I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.

...in the Twilight Princess worldview, darkness is not necessarily correlated with evil, just as light is not necessarily correlated with good.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.