One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

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.

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

Maybe heartache was more normal than the absence of it.

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't give us all different fingerprints if he wanted us all to be the same. lol -- TAMMY WOOSTER

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk, Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk

The size and quality of your achievement will depend largely upon what sort of image you have of yourself at your best.