Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

Do what you have to do when you have to do it, so that you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship).

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.

I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.