Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.

It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery.

When there is harmony between thoughts and deeds, there is peace.

I sense the joy of young and old, I hear wondrous tales told, Beauty surrounds me as I gaze above, But I am alone for I live without love.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

Failiure is not an option.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.