m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon

The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

Into the sky to win or die.

Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.

Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.

No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Depression is always in the details.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer’s certainly did.