To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

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.

free from ivory-towerthe pencil twirlsacross the footpath

She was lovely with eyes that captivated your heart, a smile that drew your mind, and a presence that captured your soul. She was everything you wanted in a girl, and so much more.

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.