If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

I truly don't believe in regret.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do