When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Loving a woman is always political.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.