You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

We each survive in our own way.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

I'm not married, ” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.

Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

I like music, ' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.

We were not put on this earth to be ordinary, we were created to be extraordinary.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

That’s one of the things that I like about him - because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.