put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Life turns out to be best for those who tried their best.

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

There's nothing childish about me, sweetheart.

The lake was no longer frozen

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.