“There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.”

“Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’said Gimli.’Maybe,’said Elrond,’but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

“Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.”

“From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.”

“A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It’s the end of the road, where there is no more mystery, no more hope. And no more questions to ask, since all the answers have been given. But there is no such place.The Universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics. Out of mathematics we build wagons to carry us into the nonhuman realms of the world.”

“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours”

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

“The perfect killer has no identity.”

“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”

“If I could make it better I would,” he says. In some ways it’s a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like it’s the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick in my eyes. (Before I Fall)”

“They have money and position and Ann has none.It’s amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.”

“I’ve managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I’m a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.”