Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Water is the best of all things.

Learn what you are and be such.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.

Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

I see consensual S&M no differently than I see consensual anything: as beautiful, and never any one thing.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.

God didn't make junk.