One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.