Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.

I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.” Jareth the Goblin King

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, "If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them."