We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.