You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose.

Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?

His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.

There were so many viciously sarcastic ways to respond, Jaden’s brain was temporarily paralyzed due to witty comeback overload.

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

Memories establish the past

Yet in the maddening maze of things And tossed by storm and flood To one fixed trust my spirit clings I know that God is good!

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.