I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.