Creativity abides no absolutes.

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

For precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

My Day Clothes are almost worne out...send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

Youth should be a savings bank.