A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

Life is an ocean and waves are our paths.

Because of love, of course. The more you love something, the harder it is to lose.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Look within, thou art the Buddha.

Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

I'll call New York for some cash.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.