A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

I am who I am and that's who I am

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

This is just me. Get used to it.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.