There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

My arrival saved the kingdom, while his only reiterated that his blood would fill the throne one day.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Stanton emerged from the shadows. "So your brother thinks you need a boyfriend?"he teased. "Stop.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.