After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

To be fearless you must fear less

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Imagination, curiosity, passion, creativity these are the words that move me!

Error of omission begets new rules.

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.