But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.