I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.