A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.

It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?