If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be...

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Forever is composed of nows.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous...

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives

The course of true love never did run smooth

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless

I like to have a martini,<br /> Two at the very most.<br /> After three I'm under the table,<br /> after four I'm under my host.

I'm a misunderstood genius."<br /> "What's misunderstood?"<br /> "Nobody thinks I'm a genius

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the...

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you...

A faithful friend is a strong defense;<br /> And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved