Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

My life failed on the very day I was born.

Peeta" I said "Stay with me" I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always