Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.

Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families, ” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

You're driving with your eyes closed.

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

I'm a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.