No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

I buy way too many books.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.