A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.

It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.