Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Dreams, desires, destiny, and difficulties in life make it a magical and meaningful fairytale.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.