A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Lord #‎ God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.