I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.

One does not have humor. It has you.

How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?

The vital spirit. L'élan vital

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

God dwells within me. As me.

Change is automatic, Progress is Not!

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.