The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

My life is very easy

The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.