Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.