One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

Never trust easy promises and large words. Easily said...easily taken away.

They had a deal before parting waysHe kept the good memoriesShe kept the bad memoriesHe loved her rest of his lifeShe hated him rest of her life

Music is poetry with personality

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

I suggest you leave. Now. (Nykyrian) (The would-be attackers flee.) Had you said ‘boo,’ I think they would have wet themselves. (Kiara)