Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.