I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.