Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

I know one thing, Bill Clinton hates Barack Obama.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I'm focused on what I'm doing and nothing can stop that.