In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation

The power of thoughts is ecstasy

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

The merchant has no country .