God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages;...

Money cannot buy time.

It was like trying to think about what he’d be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn’t be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn’t exist. It wouldn’t hurt.

… one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared...

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It’s crippling.

If you love someone, you don’t act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they’re the most important person in the world to you.

top” hemust fly, not climb.

Sometimes when we’re standing at the edge, we don’t need anyone to talk us down…we just need a push.

News is something worth knowing that you didn’t know already. (by an “earnest young woman” in his journalism class)

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain...

It’s just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

A worst thing is thinking about health who show interest in non-vegetarian

Futures can and do change, something as simple as you’re supposed to turn right down a street one day… In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to...

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’, the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow...

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

…People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

What work do I have to do then?” said Will, but went on at once, “No, on second thought, don’t tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting,...

I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual...

How do you explain to your friend’s mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?

Talk To God Ch 13 p. 90: No it doesn’t have to be a prayer. It could be someone just concentrating extremely hard, wishing or hoping that will create “the vibe” if they are so...

People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a “failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds...

He lingered at the door, and said, ‘The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you want?’…She couldn’t say forgiveness, not to Liir....

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down...

Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body....

It was the first time I had ever seen someone die, and it wasn’t what I expected…I stood there waiting for something momentous to happen, for someone to say something profound, but there was nothing…I...

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they...

Keep your heart and mind open, Taylor. Don’t make any rash decisions that you might regret later on. Sometimes things in life aren’t as clear as we would like them to be, especially in the...

Once you are a butterfly,you can really love – thekind of love that makes anew life. It’s better than allthe hugging caterpillars cando.

Is it better to have something perfect that doesn’t fit or something imperfect that fits?

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.

With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot. 

The essential ingredients of these struggles for justice are human beings who, if only for a moment, if only while beset with fears, step out of line and do “something”, however small. And even the...

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

I’ve no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I’d rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

As much as we strive towards the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow.

But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn’t even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

The law isn’t merciful.

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

And if anyone asks, you’re Chinese. The boy had nodded. “Chinese,” he whispered. “I’m Chinese.” “And I,” said the girl, “am the Queen of Spain.” “In your dreams,” said the boy. “In my dreams,” said...