Between skin and skin, there is only light.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

There is no pride in true love.

If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.