After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

I worked on USA Today as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

I gravitate toward women.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.