The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

I'd be foolish not to take some of opportunities that are coming my way. We all know this can go away at any moment.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.