Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.