The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.

Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."