All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

The doc showed no hint he had trouble taking lives.

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

I don't go to the cinema much.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.