We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.

If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.