I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

By lighting another’s candle you brighten your own.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.