Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author)

Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.

Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.