Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Failure is a greater teacher than success

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.

Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

God created black people and black people created style.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.