The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

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.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

That's a girl's life for the rest of her days- somewhere between a lollipop and shots.

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.