The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

You cannot hide the soul.

I am a child who is getting on.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.