But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life.

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

I am exceedingly angry for no good reason.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.

Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.

But that's the thing about fate. It comes whether you're ready for it or not.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

People do blame you for the things they do to you.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal.

I believe there is an unseen world all around us.