I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.

Miseries of a birth.

He's not my alpha.""Oh, he's most definitely yours, " Charlie said. "He's been watching you for the last twenty minutes as if he could do very, very wicked things to you.

Fear slams the door on belief, hope, and faith.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

Love is the reward of love.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.