“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.”

“Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

“You were born original don't die a copy”

“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression. … by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking. … There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.”

“Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.”

“Thank goodness there were people who were happy with nothing, thought Julia, so that people like her (and everyone else she had ever met), could have more.”

“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.”

“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

“The original sin is to limit the Is.”

“A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.”