Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.

I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered by another human will.

We are most alive when we're in love.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.