Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

Practice as if its competition, but compete as if its practice.

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.