Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

We don't consider a trip to Boston complete if it doesn't include a visit to Flour Bakery for a BLT and a couple of cookies. With Flour, Too we can live vicariously and be there whenever we want.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!

William Regal, what does besmirched mean?

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?