He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Giving birth, for me, was like emerging from a car crash to find myself inexplicably, madly in love with Vladimir Putin.

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.