There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.

Wealth announces itself with what's easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.

Never forget the first three letters of confidence.

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]

A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.

This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves containFor moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.