The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

You fell in love with me?

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

A good deal is a state of mind.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place.

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)