Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Love all, trust all, and help all. Know that no one can hurt you without your permission.

I'll bet he light in the window.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.