Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

Joy is joy.

As humanity becomes monstrous, monsters become nicer.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.