There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

I will never lie again.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

Civilization begins with distillation