There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

But of course I love my Japanese fans and the show must go on, no matter the daily aftershocks or husband kidnappings! It's not right but it's okay

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.