Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect, nevertheless.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.

Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.

You're insane!""I won't argue that point.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.