Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Love does not go away, it changes.