First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

The horror was this: the others.

Who could trust language?

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

The main problem of a person with victim mentality is that he is incapable of thinking over his life and consequently cannot reach his goals

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

The more you find out about the world economy, the less you may truly know.