A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.