It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.
Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance. " "Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.