Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five, ' she said, 'then die.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Works of art make rules

Life is sacred gift. There is nothing to lose, only joy.

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

I'm not in charge of my life.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!