Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

You know, " he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.