When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.

Do you want to be happy?Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

A great country cannot wage a little war.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.