Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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.

We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.

Life is likephotography we develop from the negatives

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats

People like to play with the tuna, sometimes.

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

Heaven smiles upon those who share its gifts.

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.