My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.

I wish I was more Moomin-minded.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life