Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life around ya as if you'd just come out of a tunnel.

That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet." "You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.