She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.