"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an ..."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina ..."
- Joel Carmichael
"Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniqui..."
- E.A. Bucchianeri
"A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work"
- Idries Shah
"The limits of my language are the limits of my universe."
"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."
"By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!"
"If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute."
"Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction."
- John Zelazny
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at."