It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Sometimes when you love someone so deeply, that is the thing that hurts the most.

Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

All the world's roads lead to the heart of the Warrior.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.