It's a lie that matches his desire.

But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.

You’ve been inexpressibly lucky, ” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

Everyone is always learning something new, " my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proximity.

Death is a door life opens.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.