For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

Take love and kindness with you, wherever you go.

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

You are either with us or you are against us in the fight against terror.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.