To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.

Who are the real monsters?

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.