The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.