You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.