I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

To live at all is miracle enough.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

Oh how I hate people!

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

Call time out when you need help and ask the Coach for help. Don't wait. Do it when you need it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.