To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.