You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I won’t be miserable for you!

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Magic is just science we don't understand yet.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.

The gospel of becoming a good believer cripples believers

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I wouldn’t say I was really into fashion before modelling; I was into creation.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.