I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place!

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.

I wasn’t invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn’t want any women on staff at the time.

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.