What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Even things that are true can be proved.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

I have not slept one wink.