I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same.

Always look for ways to improve even the "good show."

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.