With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.