a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.

Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.

When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.