I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential

Who care's what other people think? If you are happy with yourself, you will get by just fine with them.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.