I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Daniel Defoe

When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.

Cassandra Clare

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

Margaret Weis

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Jim Davis

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires, that the hands, in which power is lodged, should continue for a length of time, the same. A frequent change of men will result from a frequent return of electors, and a frequent change of measures, from a frequent change of men; whilst energy in Government requires not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by a single hand.

James Madison

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Ann Brashares

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Alan Rickman

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

Jonathan Kozol

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Vaclav Havel