It was the straying that found the path direct.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

Embrace reality by imagination.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Happiness is.. rising in LOVE in spite of gravity

Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.