To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.