The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

It loves more readily than it hates.

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.