You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

The burning flame is spirit of light.

Find something you love and follow it back to loving yourself.

Let's go for our dreams and be stronger than any obstacles.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

I think all priests should be married.

Gods' payment is the best payment.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

I believe everything has a solution.

It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.