Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.