Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

People are more than just the way they look.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Believing takes practice.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space!

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

To me absurdity is the only reality

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!