In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

I can't wait to make you the love of my mortal life.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

I realized two things from an early age - I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired to think about things in terms of how funny they were.

My favorite toy or game has been the ocean. My real passion is for saltwater.

If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.

Neutrality has its own aesthetics.