It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.