Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Once you “believe” that you can do it and do take the first step forward, stop doubting yourself.

If you want to heal a broken heart, Be smart! That's all an ancient art.Start by loving the very small partsThat were left there shattered apart.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

We don't know what will happen tomorrow, but one thing is guaranteed-God's overarching care for His children. We can be sure enough of that. In a world where nothing is sure, He is sure.

And friend received with thumps upon the back.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

I don't have any issues with my age.