Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.

Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

I'm 31 years old and can't complain about the money I make and the smiles I can create on people's faces.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.