There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world.

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

It's my own space, my own time, when I'm just out there letting my thoughts go. It's part of my day like eating, and it's one of my favorite parts.

A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Knowledge is a process, not a product.