When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

The Good News is the gospel of Truth.

Don't hate me for being different.Just be thankful I'm not you.

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.