She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.