Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

Whenever I start freaking out and getting stressed, I have to remember that this is just the beginning.

I don't want to be anything other than me.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.