And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

The world is not a rational place.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.

When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.