“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

How long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You can’t be that good; you work for me.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

That’s the reason they’re called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.

It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

I’m a strong alpha male but sensitive.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.