I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.