You can buy life only with life.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Mist lies over the river like the icy breath of winter angels. Darkness gathers round... and it is beautiful.Thank you for this life, this death, whatever it is you arethat makes us finally see.

You’re so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God’s part that there’s one person who matches inside and out.

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

At night I can write for hours.

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!