All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident, ' I whisper. 'So may you all.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

Sometimes you fail

Moral stories are always imaginary, but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .

If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.

When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.