One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

...but sovereign borders will mean Water haves and have-nots.

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.

Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.