A broken thing can't fix itself.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.—Ditta

Silence is not a reply. However, it shows a way of avoiding further discussion and critical questions and the escape from the reality or idiocy, since it is a personal diplomacy.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

She held my face in her hands as if I was the treasure.

The greatest gift you can give yourself is to develop your full potential.

The sea only drowns its lovers.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.