Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.

We have to try to beat Everyone.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.