It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

Every good deed is acceptable goodness.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.