To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by Wall Street and all these people that gave her millions.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.