Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.

Many lies lie between one truth.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.