Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

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

They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence.

There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.

How can I find a way to overcome this?’ is a much better question than ‘Why is my life so bad?’It’s the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.

On 'The Office, ' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.