It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The way of sin is physical death of soul.

Pray on bow knees,

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.

That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.