Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Some things are best mended by a break.

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.