The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

The laugh came then, a marvelous honking hoorah so infectious that Dill felt it should be quarantined.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.

No one can steal your joy from you, but you...take your power back!

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.