My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Hate is the wrath of the weak.

Music is another planet.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

The fastest way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.

Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

... everything I do, I choose very, very carefully, because if I don't like it, I can't make you like it.

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.