I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

Judgment and decision making are often considered together.

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

I'm sure you would have stopped it if you could have." "In a heartbeat.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.