If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!