I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Once you understand life--you understand life's potential.

We must understand that the sower and the reaper at the end shall both rejoice

I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful.

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I have tried so hard to do the right.

The emotions of the game do not change.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.