Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.