There are two sacred causes in this world, ” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

...emotions fly humans toward art

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?

In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.