Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.