Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.