A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters.

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

You're good enough, Jacob.

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.