What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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.

For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing ofthis story. Thanks for rescuing me.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do?

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.