I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Wow, a trifecta: Murder, Madness and Magic, the three things you hate most of anything in the world.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

I pretty much read reviews and comments only looking for the negative. Literally, when I read positive comments, it's like a zero. I think the issue is if you agree with it or not.

In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

An act of thinking without restriction- without boundaries or rules can lead to the point of no return.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.