All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I always loved beauty and accessories, and it's always something I was passionate about.

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.