You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Order is the key to all problems.

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.