Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

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.

stars are the scars of the universe

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

Only fools are positive.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.