What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

I think it's time to rebuild America.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way.

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.