He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

‎"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.

Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm not trying to be some mysterious producer or anything like that.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.