Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X, ' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you...There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.

I may not look it when I'm playing, but I think I'm a fun guy to hang with when I'm relaxing.

I obviously invented Solipsism

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.