Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty.

One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.