Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

God is master architect of our lives.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.