Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.

Think enough and you won't know anything.

Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.

This man was once my salvation. Now, he will be my ruin.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

One generation cannot bind another.