Everybody is nothing until you love them.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.