Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.