The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Arise in mighty strength and pursue your dream.

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.

Every Imagination can be an Amazing Truth..

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

I get a lot of credit I don't deserve.

You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.