I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.