There's this magical place, ' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...

Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

I am afraid of everybody else's secrets

I think that we all drown, in one way or another.

We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.

In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die.

I am the captain of my soul.

True inner peace can startle you! Be happy, smile, have fun. But only look for inner peace when you actually need it. After all, it is the fusion of every atoms of reality itself.

The best way to reduce stress is to know that it is not real

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

The essence of all health begins through joyful living.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.