It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Be a magnet of peace, and attract everyone to make them peaceful.

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

If you have not yet seen ‘Sue Thomas; F.B.Eye’... you are in for an unbelievable treat.

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.