The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.

I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.

My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" —Georyn