and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

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.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up.

White Americans have a short memory.

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.