The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.

Some people are angels sent to you by God at your weakest moments.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.

Accomplishment begins with two words: 'I'll try.'

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

Every thought and action of anyone affects everyone.