The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

It is so.When YOU think so

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.