New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Every eye makes its own perception.

You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know what I say? Use real ammunition! You just might raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool!

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.