There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

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.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

Someday will never come and take you by the hand.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.