May those who follow their fate be granted happiness

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.