The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Every child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.

Total freedom from your past

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.