Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have.

You were wrong, Gram, " I said softly, tone emotionless because I was resigned to the awful, lonely truth of it. "Love doesn't save our souls. It kills them.

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.

The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.