Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.
Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. I was also a fan of the 'shoe closet. ' Reading felt thrilling and illicit and deeply private to me, and I felt vulnerable doing it in public.