Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

Love is a jeering mime.

Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.

Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive

You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.