...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

If the difficult tasks are completed first, then the remaining tasks seem easy.

Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.