The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.