Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Someone loves us all.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!