Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

Invest in yourself to get the best interest.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

purple does something strange to me

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.