Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody.

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn’t one of them

You can fly as high as you can.

Approachable people are “straight-up.” It is comforting to know exactly what to expect when you see them. What you see is what you get!

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Everyday is a compromise.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.