Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.

A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer.

You can still get your point across when you speak calmly and politely. The way you say things makes all the difference. There is never a need to make a negative situation any worse than it is.

Being yourself is beautiful.

the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries.