All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Humility is attentive patience.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Courage is grace under pressure.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Effective action is always unjust.