The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

My only two weapons: time and silence.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

As for this," Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter." - 219

Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Get some facts and come back and see me!

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.