"Immortality. I notice that as soon as..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.”

“In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.”

“A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.”

“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”

“A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”

“The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.”

“When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”

“Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.”

“I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.”