We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

I will be an artist or nothing!

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

Love is a poison, ' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind