... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

Music moves the body, soul and spirit to the bliss.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

The new European Soviet.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.