I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

Scared people did scary things sometimes,

[Caine]"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."[Sam]"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.

Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange, ’ you have denied America with that word.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.