A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.