Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

"The act of reading is an act of rebellion in a world that wants you to do anything but."

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

总是听从你的直觉。它知道你的头脑还没有弄清楚的事情。

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never make me loved by the one I love.