She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.

(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.