As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.