You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch

What is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

The power of an attitude is amazing

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.