We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

If you love someone, unknowingly, you become beloved.

Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.