"Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true."

"Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing."

"It is better to err on the side of feeling."

"A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else."

"Logic can't explain the salmon swimming upstream. So it denies the existence of salmon."

"To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in."

"Things put in the wrong place have found a new place."

"All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works."

"All lovers meet and love by chance."

"Beware of puny two-legged creatures claiming to be made in the image of God."

"A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing."

"Water flows because it's willing."

"Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy."

"Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard."

"People are intelligent, it is their ideas that are stupid."

"Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings."

"We are all nameless inside."

"If words are the truth, what is living for?"

"The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place."

"The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life."

"Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others."

"Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none."

"Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent."

"Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible."

"The thought of death destroys some people and saves others."

"The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are."

"Truly caring people know they have to take care of themselves first."

"We need a new religion, a global religion, based on one simple principle: live and let live."

"Optimists think badly, but live well."

"When you love someone, really love them, you don't put chains on them. You want them to be free."

"How much of this day have you already forgotten?"

"There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness."

"Dead ends are where the real thinking begins."

"Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along."

"You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own."

"An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true."

"Walk slowly through the world and pay attention."

"All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children."

"There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top."

"Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty."

"What doesn't kill us makes a good story."

"In a godless universe, all we have is each other."

"The suicide? What would he have done if death did not exist?"

"To speak of happiness is to create happiness."

"The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves."

"Words without warmth are dead words."

"A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day."

"Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost."

"What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight."

"In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated."