What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?