There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Nothing vivifies and nothing kills like the emotions.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision for the whole world belongs to you.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

It's time for an end to the Republican-on-Republican violence.

I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52 page help booklet.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

Hes given me enough homework to last ten years. Im gonna die of nerdism.

It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy “ in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested that Lune might come to love someone else eventually. Which was me pushing back against the narrative trope that people only get one True Love in their entire lives - an idea I think is kind of pernicious - but in retrospect, I wish I hadn't done it there.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.