It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

The grace is not about forgetting, but knowing you can start anew.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

Your digital footprints speak volumes than your CV

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.