I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn’t it worth your consideration?

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

Whats fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.