Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly...

We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true,...

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything–an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren’t in the power of angels to...

It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it’s just a blink.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.

The benefit of such horizontal interactions – people sharing knowledge across fields – is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.

I’m not here only just for a visit; but I’m here cuz’ i knew I’m HOME.

Something … made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

They say that some people come in our life as blessings and others as lessons, but to be specific and precise only simple and humble people with the utmost simplicity in their lives only come...

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can’t penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...