Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.

Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.

Travel teaches toleration.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.