The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

The fastest way to double your money is to use Cosmic Ordering.

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.