And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside..

So you see, you can't do everything alone..

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust..

You see what you expect to see, Severus..

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself..

That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right..

Live close, visit often..

I like to be counted on..

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be..

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on..

Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever..

Never hope for it more than you work for it..

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading..

From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules.".

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure..

You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you..

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables….

I just go with what excites me..

You're never going to learn everything..