There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.
If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.
Love your rage, not your cage.
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.