There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone.

I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!

Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

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