I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

I was born in the age of "alas".

​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!

With all my fans I got a family again.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.