There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.