How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

No matter what happens to us, as long as we have hope, we shall recover.

When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work.

Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person