Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Short-cuts lead to long delays.