The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

I grieve for every death.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.