Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

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.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Beyond the limit of pain, it is longer painful.

You can control one thing and that is your thoughts.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.