Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Light of my heart is my spirit through which I created my universe, and I see the beauty of my sun, my moon and my dazzling stars.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

You cannot travel to the known

Don’t be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Imagination brings bliss at no cost

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.