"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."

"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ"

"In dreams begin responsibility."

"That William BlakeWho beat upon the wallTill Truth obeyed his call."

"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right"

"Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh"

"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."

"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die."

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

"Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,"Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,"And make my soul before my pate is bare."

"An intellectual hate is the worst"

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."

"Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start."

"Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will."

"An intellectual hatred is the worst."

"An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed."

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

"Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things."

"Failure is always an option."

"We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone."

"If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating."

"Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run."

"I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me"

"The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself."

"It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way."

"I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood."

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress."

"Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult."

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."

"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."

"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.man

"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."

"I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that."

"I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste."

"Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box."

"Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash."

"I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences."

"I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole."

"The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!"

"There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props."

"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"

"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."

"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart."