The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word"- Catherine Drinker Bowen

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic, ” his pedia said.

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

I don't even have a moment where I felt like I wanted to give up

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.