Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.