The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

You know, we're all human beings, and we're not made to be alone.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as He did.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.