I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

If you have an optimistic attitude, the world will get better

I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won't let us down.

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.

My fans want me with my hair.