With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Life experiences teaches me to depend absolute on God.

Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.

I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Women love an honest man.

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.