Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

Dying is a universe of its own.

New Rule #1 – Don't date women who paint. Arty-farty doesn't just equal freaky in the sack, it also equals nasty genius revenge. I don't like genius when it's happening to me.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Forever and forever and forever

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.