Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!