“Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three l...”

“Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their character...”

“With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hur...”

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; tis something, nothing;twas mine, tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he th...”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“Yes, Im talking about a non-violent revolution of consciousness. A consciousness that is able to understand how were all inextricably connected to each other on this Earth,and to the Earth itself.A...”

“If its going to be a world with no time for sentiment, its not a world that I want to live in.”

“Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.”