Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst

May peace rule the universe

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

I smoke goody, no glaucoma.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.