No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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.

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

When someone hurts you over and over, ask yourself, WHY DO YOU LET THEM?

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.