If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.

Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry.""Right, " Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

...(O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.