“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”

“I don't like lollipops.”

“Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.”

“I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?”

“Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.”

“Mercy is for the weak let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.”

“Could we wear spandex and blow things up?”

“You were so intent on what your purpose would be. I remember it nearly word for word.""Recite it for me then, my Lainna."She smiled a warm, soft smile, and her eyes filled with light."You would wak...”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”