I think that love is like candy.""I don't like candy either, " I say. He smiles at me and shakes his head. "I think anyone who says they don't like candy just hasn't found the right flavor.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

There is a rainbow at the end of the storm.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.

The less inhibited you are the better.