Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.