I’ve seen a lot of stuff… maybe I’ve seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I’ve seen what they can do, how evil they can be… I’ve seen the Holocaust and I’ve seen Jonestown, I’ve see...

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

I've never seen anyone move like she did, Chaol breathed. I've never seen anyone run that fast. Dorian, it was like... Chaol shook his head. I found a horse within of her taking off, and she outran...

I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to...

I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come wit...

I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can't tell where I leave off and the books begin. I'm nobody. I'm a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

I don't want to be friends with you, Ainsley Douglas. I want to be your lover. I want to bury myself inside you, I want to find out whether you taste as good all the way down, I want to feel you squee...

He leaned forward to inspect her closer. Is that all hair?... Sudden, overwhelming panic clawed up Cress's throat. With a squeak, she ducked out of view of the camera and scrambled beneath the desk. H...

Good find, Ethan said. Yeah, Jeff agreed. It’s pretty awesome. Like finding the Higgs boson. Silence. Aw, no physics fans here? Learn things you must, Jeff said in his best Yoda voice. I rolled my eye...

General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man. Atheism itself is too theological for us to-day. Revolution itself is to...

For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins, Conall remarked dryly, we must thank the potato.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owi...

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grow...

A citizen is no greater than his ideology,no cleverer than his intellect,no nobler than his aspirations, and no stronger than his opinions.A nation is no greater than its consciousness,no richer than...

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.And tha...

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

He talks at the drop of a pause.