Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

...if this Roman dude’s as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?

You could tell he (President Ronald Reagan) was an old radio guy. He never once looked at the television monitor.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!