The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the

The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

Knowledge is currency here....

You gotta trust someone sometime. They're either gonna f**k you over or they're not. Can't live in fear, and all that, or you'll miss out.

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.