I feel how little it concerns me, everything that’s called "the world, " and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

God goes with thoughtless people.

cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.

Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera...

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.