A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

There's a transparent face that looks deep into my eyes, baring my soul, right before terror consumes me and the image becomes a black mass of horror.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.