Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

The drawings are terribly good.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Undocumented revelation is a lost revelation.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.