The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.