Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?