A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

To know her was to love her.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.