Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The best treatment for stress, anxiety, and depression is to change your perception by knowing that all of this is coming from a fear induced illusion.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

I don't want to appear to be placing blame, but as far my life is concerned, everything is pretty much my dad's ball's fault.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.