To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

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