In this way, you’ll live forever.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Today, tomorrow, " she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldn’t understand what they meant for a long, long time.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.