Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

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

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.

Two thousand years and I’ve never met anyone so stubborn.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

There's always some relief in giving up.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.