A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.