A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Positive thought + positive action = positive results.

Simplicity within itself is just another complication.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.