All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.