The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

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 I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

When security comes, every man for himself