Why settle for failure when winning is already your God's given destiny?

Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?

Become genuinely interested in other people.

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.

My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.