That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.