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Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.
I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.
The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.
I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.
When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.
Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.
You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.