Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.

Express Yourself to Design your Life, you are here to "be you" not someone else...

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

Everything is Fair in Love, War and Fashion.

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare this is stupid.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.