No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.