The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.