I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

Thoughts are wakeful dreams without the pictures.

Pain has been never been a gain... it has been the thing which stops people.

If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.