Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

I am not sure I can.""Become sure, " said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.

I didn't see life through your eyes. Sure, we have a different set of sight.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.