Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

Movies are too literal.

Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

No one wants to go out mid-sentence.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.