Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

..it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.