You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.

The grass is always green if God is watering it.

...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

I want them to make peace with the love of God.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.