When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Want true success? Ask yourself these 3 questions daily:1. Who can I serve?2. Where can I contribute greatest?3. Is my work today congruent with my future goals?

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

There's always the trick with anything what's a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.