Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Don’t whittle your potential, just because others don’t believe in you. The only worthy question is “Do You Believe in You?

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

Nothing has that fire we feel when we're onstage.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.