We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.