Night is a world lit by itself.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

I snore. Just ask the others!

Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.