I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

I love interacting the fans and try to answer questions that people have. And I love when people are excited about projects, so. I am just a tweet away.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.