In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.

Think enough and you won't know anything.

Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.

The nearest one came to a tumble dryer was if the laundry basket was dropped on the way to the washing-line and then the whole lot went tumbling down the drive.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

The way [Barack Obama] danced, it looked like he could dance in a circle with anyone from Chris Brown to ... well, I don't want to say Michael Jackson, because he's like the king.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it

Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.