"The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned."

“I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.”

“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.”

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

“The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.”

“Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.”

“Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.”

Source : "Jack Klugman's Widow Turns Planned Holiday Party Into Memorial" by Jeanne Wolf, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 30, 2012.

“Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.”

Source : Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Team Human”, p.27, Harper Collins

“As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.”