No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

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

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

I hurt my shoulder on the fifth tee - just hitting it too hard when you're too old.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.