Life

Dreams are necessary to life.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

The only journey is the one within.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

We all believe in Utopia, perhaps in compensation for the dreadful fact of death.

We inhabit a universe from which we're trying to escape.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live.

Perhaps this is what I feel about my books: when I write them, I feel like I am telling a story.

It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.

It’s a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

The point is not for us simply to survive, but to live in that deeper sense.

The entire drama of human life is summarized and concentrated in the delicate pattern of a high lace collar.

All are guilty, they are born innocent.

Each day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life — and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.