Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.