I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Director of Ensuring the Future

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

You are given weaknessesso you can learn to become stronger.

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Ay, is it not a language I speak?