The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

There's an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening . . . honor washes away the stench of shame.

Stop focusing so much on what is on the outside and start getting to know yourself better on the inside. Your true purpose in life lies in your inner positive voices.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.