The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

Human beings are no damn good, ” he said. “We are even worse than animals. We like ...”He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.“We like monsters, ” he said.

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!