When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.
You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.
Ιt takes courage to raise children.
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.