Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.
If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.