A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...

You're an addiction...my obsession...

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night.