For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Genius is sorrow's child.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.