They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Love gives up the right to get even.

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

You have to have passion for what you're doing.