It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science.

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.

I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.