Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

To strive is to endure.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement.

Morons. I've got morons on my team.