Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened wasn't wrong or didn't matter. If it wasn't wrong or didn't hurt, there wouldn't be anything to forgive.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

We are taught words, not ideas.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.