"If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's."

“The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.”

“Books may well be the only true magic.”

“Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.”

Source : Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin

“I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.”

“If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.”

“Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.”

“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”

“Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.”