I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.