You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.

If love was a crime, God would encourage us all to go to prison.

At the beginning love is a fact, at the end it's a theory

He hit that one like an arrow

Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

Th' longest lane will have a turning.

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.