When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

I just love bright red drinks!

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

The more you think and talk, the more you lose the Way.