With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

I would say my life experience has involved dealing with people very close to me that have died.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.