What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Try me, and you start LOVING!!

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

I started comedy in like 1998.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?