Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

YOUR CALLING IS YOUR GREATEST BLESSING IN LIFE.

The greatest life is to live your greatest dream.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.