Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Feeling comes before reflection.

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

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