Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

Your lips are the only stimulant I need.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

I also have this incredible love for women.

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.