Now, tomorrow, and always.

Let this moment whisper through eternity. Let it fill my every dream and visit me each night.

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

Some beauty is fleeting, some lasts a lifetime.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.