Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.