If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.

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.

Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world.

It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.

Is there anything like a collective brain?

So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

I always try to think in curves.

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.