He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

Oh how I hate people!

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

Why break the heart that never beat from love?

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"..."It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank yo

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

Live for great hope and the beauty of dreams.

Nature is the best Time-keeper.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature