Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

I think maybe today a poem I hopeafter breakfast I start tryingpulling it out of my own gutmostly by force

I keenly desire to know God and to keep His ways.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.