There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

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.

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.