All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing.

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

It isn’t drugs addicts have to give up. It’s misery.

Beware of that demon called ‘Changing The World’.

Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others.

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect.

Space-we fill it with our dreams.

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don’t chase it when it’s gone.

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

An artist’s work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.

To extract major truths from minor details is an artist’s job.

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.

One is free, and at the mercy of everything.

Pain never apologizes.

A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality.

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Confusion is a web of words.

Where there is a strong need to believe it’s incredible what people will believe.

The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.

It’s not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else’s story.

What we invent, we become

It’s incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

For lack of love one does a million other things.

What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn’t fit?

Philosophy: unsound conclusions based on sound reasoning.

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

Winter gold: the sparrow’s footprints in the snow.

It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.

Art is an extension of friendship, a reaching out to the world.

When an artist finds, he finds without looking for it.

You don’t have to have a dream for it to come true.

They’ll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out.

The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

Why do people value most the things they haven’t got?

A writer’s courage: to leave a blank page blank.

Ambition is the death of joy.

What good is a song that doesn’t break your heart?

Moths don’t need to explain why their attracted to the light.

The kind-hearted won’t inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live.

Look up at the moon; don’t think about yourself.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

The law is that the law will be broken.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.

Cynicism-the pus from a wound.