I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

It's always to soon to quit!

Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.