(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.

I scared Stephen King.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.