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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen.Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

What did this portend? He still breathed, the instruments did not change, his heart beat on. But he called to Peter. Did this mean that he longed to live the life of his child of the mind, Young...

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Because here's the thing―we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take shorthand. Not my last line, stupid! the colonel shouted. Somebody else's. 'Read me back the last line,'...

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. Never mock a tender heart, he said.

You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they...

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

{No single} explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Test can't messure what really matters.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Reading a novel is not an exercise in censure.

. . . to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping....

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever...

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don't really do as adults, says cartoonist Chris Ware. We're all going around in a cloud of remembrance and anxiety, he says, and the act of drawing...