Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.