Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” “Unfortunately, ” he said as gently as he knew how, “it would appear so.

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.

Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.

He cupped her head with both hands. “You’re full of your own kind of magic, and it’s much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.

Lifting his head, he whispered against her wet, throbbing lips, “Too much?” Wasn’t that sweet, Consider even. But oh, hell no. She gasped, “Not enough.

I can’t get enough of you, ” he said against her neck. “When I walk away from you I feel like I’ve cut myself off from breathing.

I want you too, so much, ” she whispered. He murmured in her ear, “Then take me.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

I think of my novels as entertainments.