My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate..

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger..

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning..

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gi….

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time..

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion..

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words..

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude..

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home..

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality.….

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it..

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night..

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures..

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love ….

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows ….

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough..

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know..

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness..

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world..