A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.