To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly loved.

Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.

Septimus grinned. "It's not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.