You should never judge a person solely by the evidence of your eyes.

Fear of dying brings humans the greatest pain. Death is implicit in every form of joy. Of course, it also brings the end of pain.

People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.

Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us.

One way or another, we’re all prisoners.

Love will not come to me again. I’ll vegetate like a plant in a cellar, without light.

I’d give you – if I thought one day you might return my feelings …

...and the worse the memory, the stronger its stranglehold on the present.

All they see is madness. It’s the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me.

Negative thinking is based on complexes

Smile puts a smile on all the good things in the world

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry, '

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.