The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

Motivation gets you started, and inspiration keeps you going.

What you choose also chooses you.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an actuality that lacked a balance betwixt ha...

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments...

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your...

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Your mortal's storming the slaver den. Aric's tone was half-amused, half-approving. I'm hereby inviting myself on his incursion.

You're Bes, I guess? I said.Yes, he said.Your car's a mess, Liz muttered.If one more person rhymes, Emma grumbled, I'll throw up.

When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat. So in the lyric poets, love is somethin...

What is the nature of life?Life is lines of dominoes falling.One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people d...

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.Then they'd come home and take over Earth.OK, not that.

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bu...