Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and for ever.

It's a long road. Setbacks don't actually matter.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

It is your minds that are moving.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.