Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

Husband and wife, must complement each other.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.