One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.