History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.