Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment

Honest communication is a rare thing.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.