A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

God is a necessary evil.

The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

Smile, the worst is yet to come.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.