The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

Dress for the job you want aka always dress like the Ultimate Warrior

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!