It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Life is enrich with much love

Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.

Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

You call it madness but I call it love.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.