The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

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.

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.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

Remember, people make you who you are.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.