I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Chaykin at his ballsiest and most dynamic. This is how the Shadow should be done.

There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?

We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need.