Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation

They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.

I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.