Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Gratitude is one of the strongest pillars of a happy life.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

You can't control things by being nervous.

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.