Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.

the strength of open, unregulated information-sharing platforms is their responsiveness, not their insight or depth

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.