Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.

You can never complain your way into a happy successful life.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

I started when I was seven years old so I was on 50, 60 cc Suzuki and then I went up to a Yamaha 125 and then my sister was 16 and she was racing a Harley Davidson 750.

Little dogs bite more than big dogs but they get away with it.

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.