The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.