The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.