And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.