Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

Only conformists are ever adored.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it's one thing to do that - it's a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

You want something to drink?” – Nick “Human blood would be fabulous. But since I doubt you’re donating, let me suffer for a minute longer.” – Caleb