Habits form a second nature.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

The form follows the function.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

Loving her is strange and confusing and damn risky. And if I had the chance I'd choose it all over again.

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people.