A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

Without experience, how will you know what exist?

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

To industry nothing is impossible.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

Every class is unfit to govern.

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.