In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

Pick the axe

All authority belongs to the people.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.