Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

It's not your size. It's your inner strength.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.