The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.