Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.