Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

One day I hope to hear "this is the world we live in" used in a positive light.

Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.

Love is trembling happiness.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.