For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

Keep cool. Anger is not an argument.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

Stupid people always ignored good advice

Clearly, I'm way older than everyone.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.