Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.

It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.