The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Survival is triumph enough.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here, like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't?

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

God waits for us to create him.

At last someone takes me seriously.

That's my Shinobi Way

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.