A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.

Kurt Vonnegut

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

Cassandra Clare

Be ready for the revelation of the truth.

Elia M. Ramollah

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

Orson Scott Card

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

Mark Ruffalo

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Mayim Bialik

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford