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Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.
I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.
What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.
The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely
If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.
What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.
A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down