There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

Some people have two full-time jobs: Working to support their lifestyles and creating illusions to impress the society and their peers.

If you want a thing done go if not send.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I’ll see you in your dreams, okay, stupid?

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

Any problems with your flight? (Acheron) I didn’t eat my pilot if that’s what you mean. And little Nicky here is still breathing and not bleeding. (Zarek)