Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

I sometimes think you despise poetry, ' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.

Love is the stimulation for the creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

All love stories are the same.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.