Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

Love is larger than life.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania