Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

In space you don't stop.

I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

Let no day go by without counting your blessing.

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.