Love me little, love me long.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won't be able to breathe.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Getting even has never healed a single person.

Once you're in the game, you forget about everything.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.