Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die
That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.
He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.
I don't even think about fame at all.
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It is like a seed that contains a tree within it. In the same way, the fulfillment of man's ultimate desire is hidden in his very nature. In its perfectly developed state, it is our nature to be happy, to be free. Our real nature is the only thing that is true, and only perfecting it can bring complete satisfaction.