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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.
I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.
I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.
Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it.
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.
If Sasha’s threatened, Astrid’s upset. If Astrid’s upset, I’m going to kill whatever’s upsetting her until she’s happy again. (Zarek)
Oh yeah, Scooby, it does. You and I have gone round many a day. I’m the reason you keep thinking you’ve had alien abductions. (Caleb)
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)
No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)
You smoke? (Randy) Only when I’m on fire. (Steele) I don’t appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I’m an acquired taste. (Steele)
Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)
You really are here. (Thanatos) Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it’s your turn. (Zarek)
What do you want, Acheron? (Artemis) You know what I want. After all I’m the top of the Food Chain and you…you’re the Food. (Acheron)
You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.
See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena
The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way
Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.
We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.