I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.

Time slowly fades away but no matter how many years pass I'll never forget you 'cause for me you'll always be the right one

Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, "I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.

No one is perfect but someone is original.

I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.

6. You want to help him.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.