one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

The future, when it comes, is just like the present. The present is all you have and the opportunity of the present is worth more than the success of the past or the promise of the future.

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.