The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

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.

I think that when you don't know, you should wait until you do.

My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Common sense is not too common.