My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

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.

Happiness is what happens when you build the level of awareness and courage to continuously identify, challenge, and replace your negative thoughts and beliefs.

I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

I never had a coach teach me, my style of batting, nor do I believe in coaching at an international level.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.