Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised.

This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.

There is no armor against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

Leo: “I can’t believe I thought you were hot.” Khione’s face turned red. “Hot? You dare insult me? I am cold, Leo Valdez. Very, very cold.

The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.