I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man.

Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Pain only disables the weak.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

The problems of the past.How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future.

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.