Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth read more

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the read more

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your read more

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.