Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

We race toward the future at the velocity of the present.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

Novelists invent characters

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.